{"id":15073,"date":"2016-03-30T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15073"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:54:26","slug":"15-out-of-this-world-facts-about-forbidden-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15073","title":{"rendered":"15 Out-of-This-World Facts About &#8220;Forbidden Planet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z033016forbiddenplanet_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"637\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Bryan Reesman <\/b><\/span>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong> present <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/77073\/15-out-world-facts-about-forbidden-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 Out-of-This-World Facts About <em>Forbidden Planet<\/em><\/a><\/strong><b>.<\/b>\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">7. ROBBY RACKED UP A LOT OF OTHER CREDITS.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Forbidden Planet<\/em> made its lovable bucket of bolts a star, and throughout his career Robby racked up more than two dozen film and TV credits, including <em>The Invisible Boy<\/em>, <em>The Thin Man<\/em>(TV series), <em>Lost In Space<\/em>, <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>, <em>Wonder Woman<\/em>, <em>Mork<\/em><em>and Mindy<\/em>, and <em>Gremlins.<\/em>He has also done TV spots for Charmin, AT&amp;T, and General Electric (that last one in 2012).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">15. THE FILMMAKERS WERE RECYCLERS.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Forbidden Planet<\/em> was shot on same stage as <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, with bits of Munchkinland used for Altaira&#8217;s garden. In an interesting twist, some of <em>Forbidden Planet<\/em>&#8216;s costumes (including the crewmen uniforms and Altaira&#8217;s clothing) were re-used in <em>Queen of Outer Space<\/em>, a 1958 sci-fi movie starring Zsa Zsa Gabor in which a space crew that has crash landed on Venus attempts to overthrow its female dictator, who has banished men from the planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5. ROBERT KINOSHITA DESIGNED ANOTHER ICONIC ROBOT.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThat electronic entity being, of course, The Robot from the &#8217;60s sci-fi series <em>Lost In Space<\/em>. While their design was somewhat different, the two cybernetic companions shared a similar &#8220;talk box,&#8221; a display that lit up in tandem with the rhythm of their speech. Robby actually guest starred on three episodes of <em>Lost In Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Reesman and Mental Floss present 15 Out-of-This-World Facts About Forbidden Planet.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 7. 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